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Saturday 26 May 2007

Shame on The Sun (an editorial)

no need for The Sun, Freema's got the moon

Official statement from the BBC:
“It is absolute rubbish that Freema Agyeman has been axed or sacked from Doctor Who. However we do not comment on future storylines.”

On a day where Freema should be celebrated in the press for her lovely first appearance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, it instead has been horribly ruined by the cruelty of a tabloid desperate for attention by any means. While we are not an official voice for Freema, we would like to at least express our outrage against The Sun’s nonsense.

Having failed to cash in on their attempts to damage her established co-star, David Tennant, by trying to ignite and ride on rumours of his impending departure from Doctor Who, “The Sun” has turned their eye to a far easier target, an actress who has just barely gotten her momentum going in mainstream media and therefore can less easily defend herself.

Freema had been their darling until recently and they could not print enough nice things to say about her. But she seems to have outlived her usefulness to them since every other paper was also praising her and their voice was being drowned out. So “The Sun” has changed their tactics, now forming their words into a knife and trying to plunge it into her career for no apparent reason but for their own depraved gossip and readership numbers.

Rest assured, there is an ever growing list of logical reasons why what they say is hopelessly incorrect and full of falsehoods, including a recent statement* by Russell T. Davies that he hasn’t even written the Christmas Special yet, let alone any of series four. But The Sun made one glaring mistake in their attempt to trash Freema: there is no-one in the BBC that high in authority who would ever talk to them on that kind of topic. It just wouldn’t happen. Such a person would lose their lucrative job in a heartbeat, it wouldn’t be worth risking discovery.

To attempt to poison Freema’s fanbase by eroding the will to commit to her character emotionally is nothing short of a crime in our book. It’s bad behaviour expected from a bully, not from any entity claiming to be “press”.

So in conclusion, all we can do is ask you to boycott The Sun. There is simply no reason to read it anyway and if this is going to be their new trend why do you need such negativity in your day? Entire towns have successfully boycotted The Sun, we dare say a fandom can do so as well. We are compiling a list of their associated products and companies to boycott, as well as previous claims by them that were complete fabrications so that you may more readily defend yourself against their rubbish and will publish it as soon as reasonably possible. Ask your friends and family to join this action.

We thank you for your loyalty to Freema.



Update: The BBC have now given us a short statement Saturday morning strongly denying The Sun’s claim, which has been placed at the top of this page. In addition at the end of the day we received further confirmation from other solid sources (which unfortunately we cannot name) who assure us that The Sun’s article is untrue.

* Russell T. Davies told Ariel in an interview at the end of April:
Don’t be stupid, I haven’t even written the script yet

The Daily Star reports on 2 June: Freema’s agent confirms she is in series 4

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create your own avatar at http://site.gravatar.com GB IanOTimelord 2.5 years ago #171

How can anyone say Russell T Davis is like JNT??
Hes 100 times better, under JNT we saw audiences decline, I mean for those that remember such stories as Two Drs, Timelash. Trial of a Timelord, Time and the Rani..
If you don’t like New Who then don’t watch it! Its superb this year been the best yet. And should RTD want to move on there is no problem there, after all the team that made Dr Who so popular in the first half of the 70s moved on and the show continued to be a success.

I for one am loving Dr Who, and David and Freema are excellent, and now we have the lovely John Barrowman too!

create your own avatar at http://site.gravatar.com GB Caz 2.5 years ago #172

Wow, thanks for clearing this up. I won’t be buying the Sun again…

create your own avatar at http://site.gravatar.com GB Jo 2.5 years ago #173

I’m glad it’s rubbish, I and my sons think she is fantastic!

create your own avatar at http://site.gravatar.com GB anon 1.5 years ago #174

I am glad, not about the trashy news but that people are finally taking action against the Sun. I never buy it and if it ever got brought into my house it would go straight in the fire. grin

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